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Was he a parent of one of the other GG characters?

Did he pine for Rory at Yale?

I think Lorelai blinked a few times, especially when Rory moved out then moved back -- it wasn't the morality of it, but that Lorelai felt Logan was not good for Rory. (And who would be good for her, in Lorelai's eyes?) I actually would have expected Christopher to be more bothered, bad boy bonding aside, because, well, he is the dad! I also think Lorelai was walking on eggshells with Rory after the Rift at the start of season six.

Did he date Lorelai on a blind date?

I think the point is not how the ring got there, but that someone (I think we have a Strange suspect in mind!) is using access to police evidence to help the Masons. We have now seen two different pieces of evidence lifted from crime scenes at the end of the past two episodes.

Thank heavens for decent public officials like Judge Clay Jenkins of Dallas County. I found his factual monotone recitation very moving as he listed the reasons Dallas was going to help small children who are undocumented and who are currently being sent to something that he described as basically a jail while waiting for action. Thanks for introducing us to him, Rachel, and I look forward to the follow-ups you requested.

Yes, one of my PBS stations also shows the original "Inspector Morse" episodes on Fridays. But we do not have a "UK channel"! That would be terrific! In this newer series, they are definitely setting up the backstories for the future Morse and Strange --- and it's making me want to watch them more closely than I had before.

Really? I can't find it on Netflix, not under "Endeavour" or under "Masterpiece Mystery". I started to watch the one available episode on Netflix last week (from Season One, "GIrl"), but it had an expiration date of "July 1" on it, and indeed, it was gone the next day. pbs.org has been carrying the immediate past episode -- so, "Trove" was available all last week, but I don't know if it continues this week.

No, the daughter would have to be at least 20, no older than 26 -- it is 1966 in the series, so the latest he would have been killed was 1945. I was expecting it to be the niece, but the young woman at the end was just a random character, which was actually more satisfying. Glad for the older couple! I agree it seems strange that the ring would have been passed along to the illegitimate son -- especially given that it was a Masonic ring.

Thanks for starting the thread! I don't really like ghost stories anymore, so found this plot less involving than last week's story. But I was fascinated at the end by another mysterious moment regarding the evidence: when the black-gloved hand lifted the ring from the table of items taken from the killer, and opened it to reveal the main symbol of Masonry, the interlocked compasses. So, that Masonic thread from last week is woven into another episode. Did anyone catch that Endeavour walked past a giant poster of last week's Miss Great Britain (selling a tin of something). That was in the first twenty minutes or so.

"The Masonic Mysteries" is mentioned over in the "Trove" thread -- I have not seen it in a long time, but as the current "Endeavour" writing seem to be referencing it, I will go back and watch it. I'm so glad they are exploring the reverse continuity! I really liked the old "Inspector Morse" series, but "Endeavour" I like even more. Has some of the same flaws, which are the human flaws of Morse, not the writers. Again, good reverse continuity.

I'm sure Rachel would be happy to be the bartender. I hear she is an awesome bartender at the White House Correspondents Dinner afterparty. Can I say how happy I am to see familiar handles on these posts?

On to the similarities and discrepancies of "The Wolvercote Tongue" and "Trove". I pulled it up on Netflix. In the Inspector Morse episode, the expert said that a boy had stumbled across the Wolvercote Buckle in 1873, in the Thames, followed by "treasure hunters" who made off with the Wolvercote Tongue, and spirited it away to the U.S., with the tongue discovery being revealed to the British when it was put on display in Philadelphia in 1922. In "Trove," The new expert said the buckle was found in the famous dig of 1931, along with the other treasures. In "The Wolvercote Tongue," Morse makes a big deal out of the fact that it is one of the treasures of the Ashmolean (Lewis said he had never been there), but the way Morse said it, it almost seemed like sarcasm -- "of course EVERYONE knows about the WOlvercote Buckle, Lewis." At any rate, nice backward continuity on that point, but not on the history of the buckle. Don't know why they changed the history -- the original story would have worked fine. By the way, LOVED the way Endeavour went after DOCTOR Copley Barnes about incorrectly referencing the Historica Ecclesiastica and going on to his own observations about Bede the Venerable. That bonnet-wearing DOCTOR was a jerk to all.

The thing that was "missing" that he "forgot" was the notebook -- and the final scene showed what happened to it. (I've already obsessed about that in two posts above!) But as he mentioned it over and over, it surprised me that they expect us to accept that he "forgot" it. The neighbour loaned him a can opener, or "tin opener," as he said, in exchange for the ten pence he gave her for the gas (not everyone knows that then, and today in many parts of the world, you pay for electricity and gas as you consume it). What amazed me is that he kept walking around with that notepad with "FRIDA Y", etc., on it, when it was a piece of evidence that should have been sent to be registered and preserved as evidence.

That very last scene still bugs me, and I was hoping the eagle-eyed posters here had seen some clue I missed. I looked at it again, and it looks like a very posh residence (note black and white checkered tiling), with a butler in white gloves handing off the notebook to someone else, who had a pinky ring. I do hope this gets resolved at some point! ETA: that I just remembered that Thursday asked who had secured the scene where the notebook was last seen, and Morse/Endeavour said "Strange -- not that I mean anything by that." So perhaps that was the clue I thought must exist somewhere in the episode.

Frida's mother (Elspeth) died, although I'm not sure if the stepfather said when. But you'd assume the Captain would be keeping track of Frida, if only to avoid Frida and Elspeth both. I appreciate that you posters are reminding me of the characters in the "Inspector Morse" series -- I've seen them all, but the reminders are very helpful!

Yes, it was fun to hear the reference to the Wolvercote treasures. The specialist/assistant at the exhibit mentioned the discovery of the Wolvercote Buckle, which he said was on display at the Ashmolean Museum. The later series episode "The Wolvercote Tongue" was about restoring the "tongue", or the missing piece, to the buckle at the Ashmolean. I can't bear that episode because of the dreary American tourists. Yes, you are right, Milz, you would think that reunions would have outed the Captain. And surely he had some family that deserved to know he had died, or who wondered who this stranger was who turned up after the war. Shades of "Mad Men"! They were playing the Brahms Requiem at the start and conclusion of this episode.

First episode of Season 2 aired -- and I loved it, except for the relationship between the murdered young woman and the lover/father. That twist seemed so unnecessary -- there could have been so many other reasons she needed to be killed. And surely he had kept track of her and her mother over the years, so how could he not know that was his daughter? But loved the Trove theft and the other plot line. What was that at the end? The only person on the episode with a pinky ring* was the contest mastermind, and I could not tell if the ending was meant to be mysterious, or whether it will be continued? (*The missing notebook was handed over to someone with a pinky ring. But it was a very luxurious setting.)

Honestly, I look forward to these threads during the show even more than the show! So I'll be following along! So glad this tradition is available on previous.tv for those of us who recently joined.

All the snark is great-- I'm watching three hours later and scrolling through the comments as the show airs. Thanks!

Still waiting on the West Coast -- has the "Cabaret" scene already happened? Want to get home in time for it, even though it set to record.

I see names I recognize here -- hurrah! But I have not been inspired to watch this week's guests.

Thank you, Kromm! I did not have time to track down that Oscar award show mis-performance. I never know who is going to win the Tonys, so everything is a surprise to me.

Here's hoping others will join in celebrating the Tonys here next Sunday, June 8. Television connections? Alan Cumming (Eli from "Good WIfe") singing his amazing, scorching interpretation of the Master of Ceremonies in "Cabaret"; Neil Patrick Harris singing his starring glittery role in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch", and a whole lot of theatre folk who know how to pronounce "Idina Menzel", who also will be singing. I love being able to see scenes from Broadway productions in this awards show. Alas, I won't get to see it until it airs on the West Coast three hours later, but I will be glued to this thread to find out when the highlights are happening.

Thank you, Blackbird! I was typing "I want to be in the Gilmore Girls thread when TWoP goes dark," and it stopped in the middle of my post. So glad to see the conversation picking up over here!